In 2012 and 2014 Collusion presented Transient Beauty"It was wonderful to see how all the work previously created by Collusion Music has informed and deepened the poignant beauty of this more traditional collaboration, it was breathtakingly beautiful. I was transfixed from the first breath." - surveyed audience member

Eight artists performed in a striking fusion of music and dance. They found fragments of beauty in everyday experiences.The Soundtrack to the chamber ballet Transient Beauty is available here.

Transient Beauty Four dancers and four musicians create this dance theatre work with original live music, which delivers a striking fusion of emotional expressions that everyone can relate to. Audience members have the fragments of beauty in everyday experiences revealed to them. This beautiful and inspiring story of a woman rebuilding her family after confrontation and generational conflict unravels for all to see. Set within the stark frame of a house, with musicians on stage, this dramatic work uncovers wounded hearts filled with hope amid the strewn remnants of relationships. Reconciliation and healing turn this work full circle, and thus complete a delicate and yet robust experience for everyone. Confrontation as a catalyst for change is explored by choreographer Gareth Belling in this powerful collaboration with Collusion Music and Susan Hawkins. This Chamber Ballet was commissioned by the Restrung Festival with the support of the Brisbane Powerhouse and the Australia Council for the Arts. It was first performed in 2012. Collusion is Ensemble in Residence at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Brisbane. Accolades include ‘Most Interesting Australian Group’ in Dance Australia Magazine’s 2012 Critic’s Survey for Transient Beauty by choreographer Gareth Belling and Collusion.

Dancers/Musicians:Melissa TattamThe DaughterMelissa completed ballet training at the Queensland Dance School of Excellence and Queensland Ballet Professional Year. In 2003 she was a founding member of the Tasmanian Classical Ballet Company before returning to Queensland Ballet. Melissa performed soloist roles in many Queensland Ballet productions. Melissa has toured internationally with the company to Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, China, Japan and Singapore. She has performed featured roles by choreographers Nils Christe, Kim McCarthy, Natalie Weir, Mario Schroder, Stephan Toss, Young Soon Hue and Gareth Belling. Melissa is now an active Brisbane- based freelance dancer.

Rosetta CookThe MotherRosetta Cook has had wide-ranging career as a director / choreographer, performer and teacher in dance, theatre, film and television.Rosetta began her career as a dancer and was Principal Ballerina with The Queensland Ballet from 1982 - 1992. During this time she danced numerous diverse roles, renowned for her interpretation of Salome, Carmen, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Scheherazade and Alice in Wonderland. She was also a member of Sydney Dance Company and has performed as Guest Artist with many other companies and on television. Rosetta received an Advance Australia Award for her outstanding contribution to dance in Australia.During the 90's Rosetta moved into contemporary dance, theatre and film, performing in a diverse range of productions. Some of those include, John O'Connell's ballroom cabaret comedy Mr. Cha Cha Says Dance as Mme Rhumba, Fall of Singapore with the Sydney Theatre Company, and the lead role in The Empty Lunch Tin, for Theatre of Image and in Baz Luhrman's film Moulin Rouge. During this time Rosetta began to learn tango and has been dancing it ever since.As a choreographer Rosetta has choreographed for the Opera Australia, The Queensland Ballet, the Qld Performing Arts Trust, The Dancers Company of The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Opera Queensland, QUT, AIT Arts, The Hunter Symphony Orchestra, her own independent projects funded by NSW Ministry for the Arts, The Australia Council for the Arts, and Arts Queensland, for two ABC Documentaries, television commercials and video clips. Rosetta won the Robert Helpmann Award for her work Tangled Heart, at the A.I.C.D Dance Creation Choreographic Competition. In 2005 Rosetta received study grant from Arts Queensland to travel to Buenos Aires to further her studies in tango.In 2011 Rosetta was Director/Choreographer on The Little Green Road to Fairyland, for the Queensland Music Festival with music composed by Elena Kats Chernin. She also created a tango based work for The Queensland Ballet, Hall of Flame, for their Gala season. In 2012 she created Love after Love for The Queensland Ballet. In 2012/13 she received an Arts Queensland grant to develop a tango dance theatre work, Heaven Hell and Tango. In 2013 she created Ordinary Time and Spirals in collaboration with Timothy Constable of percussion group Synergy for for Southern Cross Soloists Rhythm and Dance season at QPAC in June.In 1998, due to the success of her work Rapture, Rosetta was invited by Davida Allen to choreograph for her feature film Feeling Sexy. This led Rosetta to pursue a long held interest in filmmaking and she went on to make two short films, Frocks Off and The Red Dress. The short film Frocks Off was selected for screening at Flickerfest in 2002 and at Reeldance where it won the IF people's choice award in Adelaide. The Red Dress was nominated for the Dance Film award at The Australian Dance Awards in 2003 and has screened on ABC Sunday Arts.In 2003 Rosetta was awarded an Australia Council Fellowship to enable her to further develop work for screen in a two year program of creative work and professional development. A part of her fellowship was the Frocks Off series of mini documentaries commissioned by SBSi and funded by AFC and PFTC that has been screening throughout 2006 - 2009. She went on to make a short film Barwork that was selected for screening at Reeldance International Dance on screen festival in 2006 and in Cinemoves around Australia, Cinedans in Amsterdam, Videodanza in Buenos Aires and toured Mexico in 2007.In 2011 Rosetta completed a short drama The Last Tango In Sunnybank which has screened around Australia in various festivals and won Best Production Design at the 2011 Queensland New Filmmakers Awards.TeacherRosetta guest teaches in ballet contemporary dance and tango. She has taught at numerous schools around Australia over the years. In 2007 she co founded 2ballerinas dance school for adults with Michelle Giammichele.

Benjamin GreavesViolin/Viola An Australian National Academy Music Scholar and Westpac Scholarship holder at Queensland Conservatorium, Ben studied with the renowned Carmel Kaine. He enjoys a successful career, having performed with Qld Symphony, Camerata of St John’s as principal 2nd violin, guest leader and soloist, SXS Bangalow Festival, Queensland Ballet, Circa, Katie Noonan, Elixir, Adelaide Cabaret, Brisbane and Queensland Music Festivals, Crossbows, Restrung and for Susan Hawkins’ EP. International studies were taken in the Czech Republic and Belgium. He has toured extensively throughout Australia with Collusion and the Köln Chamber Orchestra. He was a violinist for the QPAC South Pacific Season and other QPAC seasons. Director/Manager of the ensemble, Ben has been a member of Collusion since it’s foundation.

Diana TolmieClarinets/Saxophones Diana has led an exciting career instigated by a Churchill Fellowship and Queen Elizabeth Trust Award. 25 years of music employment performing clarinet, saxophone and flute; featured work in national and international touring musicals as well as orchestral work with the Orchestra Victoria, Queensland, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, and the world-class Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Her work encompasses contemporary and mainstream live, television and recording events. Diana is Clarinet and Saxophone lecturer at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University. She performed repertoire from her solo CD at the 2013 International Clarinet Conference in Assisi, Italy.Dr Danielle BentleyCelloDr Danielle Bentley is a cellist, academic, writer, poet and curator. She has performed in countless tours, concerts and recording sessions around Australia with acclaimed classical and popular music ensembles and artists. These include: the Paris Opera Ballet, Opera Queensland, Opera Australia, Australian Ballet, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata of St John’s, Olivia Newton-John, Pete Murray, Harry Connick Jnr, Kanye West, Missy Higgins, Xavier Rudd, Kristen Chenoweth – to name a few. Since 2002, she has run Bentley’s Agency which provides music for corporate events and weddings.Danielle curates and manages Restrung Festival, which was the topic of her PhD exploring cross-genre string music and festival curation. She was Festival Manager for Queensland Conservatorium’s Crossbows festival in 2012, and is Manager of the International Music Council’s 5th World Forum on Music, taking place at Queensland Conservatorium November 21-24 2013.

Philip EamesPianoAustralian composer and pianist Philip Eames, who’s playing has been described as “playful, mischievous, and vivacious” (The Australian Times) is currently based in Sydney, Australia and is an enthusiastic and passionate advocate of new and interesting music.Philip has performed both as soloist and chamber musician internationally, and is the recipient of many notable prizes and scholarships including an entrance award and the Patricia Cunliffe Prize for Keyboard Studies from the Royal Northern College of Music, 1st Places in the South-East Queensland Concerto competition, the Queensland Piano Competition, the Chamber Music and Concerto sections of the Australian Concerto and Aria Competition and the Keys Festival of Australian Music. In terms of further scholarships he was awarded the inaugural 2011 Redland City Youth Development Fund Scholarship, an Ars Musica Australis Fellowship, and grants from the Tait Memorial Trust, Redland City Council, PPCA Performers Trust Association. He was also presented with the 2010 Owen Fletcher Postgraduate Award and the 2008 Fred Ellaway Prize for the highest achieving piano student at the Queensland Conservatorium.As a composer he was announced the winner of the 2013 Tagore Composition Competition, awarded first place in the 2010 ASKM Composition Competition, and has had his compositions performed internationally, including in New York, Edinburgh and Melbourne. Philip was also a featured composer in the 2010 Sounding Out series, Brisbane. He writes extensively and eclectically for mixed ensembles in both large and small scale, but also ranges from piano and vocal scores to electronic mediums. Philip is currently a PhD candidate at the Sydney Conservatorium and holds two Master of Music degrees from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, also having been awarded the Bachelor of Music in Advanced Performance with First Class Honours in 2008 from the latter institution. He has studied piano under Dr Max Olding, AM and Dr Stephen Savage.Philip is much in demand as concerto soloist and guest artist, having performed with the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra, the Queensland Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Wind Orchestra, the North Cheshire Wind Orchestra and in the Janacek Capriccio for Left Hand Piano and Winds with the Redlands Brass Ensemble. Most notably, Philip performed as soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No.2 “The Age of Anxiety” under Vladimir Verbitsky as a keyboard finalist for the 2010 ABC Young Performers Awards. His repertoire also includes such fascinating works as Carl Vine’s Piano Concerto No.1 and the Gershwin Piano Concerto and he is also a highly active chamber musician.Philip was featured in the ANAM Piano! Festival, the Australian Percussion Gathering, the North West New Music Festival, World Event Young Artists, the Per Nørgård Festival, and most recently the Ligetti Academy in the Netherlands.Philip has actively commissioned new works and frequently participates not only as a soloist, but also as an orchestral and chamber pianist with a wide variety of new-music ensembles, involving many world, Australian and UK premieres of major composers, including George Antheil, Matthew Hindson and Donnacha Dennehy. He frequently performs new works for piano by emerging and established composers throughout Australia and the UK, including Jae-moon Lee, Liam Flenady and Lisa Cheney. Notably, Philip was also repetiteur under conductor Luca Pfaff for the contemporary opera Miracolo a Milano by Giogio Battistelli, and more recently for the productions of The Mermaid of Zennor, a chamber opera by Leo Geyer. Philip has extensive experience with conducting, musical direction and choral music, and served as the musical director for the Greater Manchester Police Male Voice Choir from 2012. He was also the official accompanist for the 2011 Australian Concerto and Aria Competition.Philip enjoys visual art, with three of his paintings being finalists in the 2011 “Lethbridge 10000” Small-Scale Art Award, and he has had artworks hung and sold in Australian Galleries.He is also the author of the eclectic music blog Semantic Marmot

Creatives :Gareth BellingChoreographerAustralian choreographer Gareth Belling danced with Queensland Ballet between 2002 and 2012. He made his choreographic debut with Collusion Music in Evocations 2005. Since then he has created works for Queensland Ballet, Collusion Music, Expressions Dance Company and Queensland University of Technology. In 2011 Gareth was mentored by internationally renowned choreographer Nils Christe and his participation in the Swiss International Coaching Project for Choreographers and an Impulstanz Research Project was co-funded by a JUMP Mentorship and Arts Queensland Career Development Grant. Gareth created bittersweet for Queensland Ballet's 2012 International Gala and Scorched Earth for Brisbane Festival’s Dance Energy in 2012. He premiered his first full-length work, Transient Beauty with Collusion Music in Restrung Festival at Brisbane Powerhouse. Now pursuing a freelance career, he is undertaking a Master of Fine Arts (Dance) at QUT. Intimate Distance premiered in Ausdance Queensland's Dance. Indie Dance showcase alongside Collusion Music’s Benjamin Greaves and excerpts of Something Said were performed by QUT Dance at the 2013 Beijing Dance Festival. Sweet Beginnings was commissioned by Queensland Ballet and premiered in the company’s Elegance season at The Playhouse, QPAC.garethbelling.com

Susan Hawkins Composer and Musical Direction Susan Hawkins is a composer/sound artist with international experience, collaborating in contemporary dance, film, animation, theatre, and sound installation –highlights include performances at Tate Britain (UK), the San Francisco International Arts Festival (USA), residencies at CESTA (Czech Republic) and the Bundanon Trust (Australia). In 2011 Susan released her second EP, LIGHT FROM BELOW which features tracks Red Valise and While He Slept which appear in from Transient Beauty. Susan was named Resident Composer of Collusion Music at the start of 2013. susanhawkins.netAnthony Spinaze Sets and Costumes Anthony Spinaze has been working as a scenic artist, designer and constructionist for the past ten years. Anthony was employed for two years as an art teacher for Camp Jewell YMCA Youth Camp (Colebrook, CT, USA - 2007-09) and worked as the Head Scenic Artist and Designer for Event Imagery from 2000-2007. He has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Technical Production) at the Queensland University of Technology specialising in production design, and has collaborated with Queensland Ballet and Queensland Theatre Company.Ben Hughes Lighting Design Ben Hughes is a freelance lighting designer whose work encompasses a wide variety of styles and genres. He has worked for Queensland Theatre Company, Brisbane Powerhouse, Stella Electrika, The Danger Ensemble, Kooemba Djarra, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre, JUTE Theatre, The Kransky Sisters, Creative Generation, Brisbane Cabaret Festival, Raw Dance Company and the Queensland Ballet. Ben was nominated for a 2008 Matilda Award for John Gabriel Borkman and a 2010 Matilda Award for The Crucible.elysianblue.net

"The packed audience was enthralled and cheered the troupe at the end. There were only three performances, but each one was sold out, which shows the popularity and need of modern dance and music. I would like to see more of them."Eric Scott, AbsoluteTheatre 2015

"Desirelines is a testament to the combined vision of co-producers (and choreographer and violinist respectively) Gareth Belling and Benjamin Greaves, and to the professionalism of all the creatives involved that they were able to combine their various disciplines and personalities to create such a bewitching piece of live performance. To say it’s an achievement is an understatement."Carrie McCarthy, Cultural Flanerie 2015

"Greaves, joined by Bentley and clarinettist Diana Tolmie, often dominated with the sheer force of their virtuosic performance of the especially composed pieces"Dance Australia, 2015

"Highlights were the Sculthorpe violin solo Irkanda I and Ibert’s cello solo Ghirlazana (elegy), both Greaves and Bentley producing beautiful sound, with shimmering tremolo and bird-like harmonics in the Sculthorpe piece."​XSEntertainMe 2015

“Collusion performed throughout with intense engagement and finesse. Their precise ensemble playing detailed the works... Dramatic opportunities (and there were many) never went to waste.” Alan Lawrence, Reviewer Australian Modern Magazine

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